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Journal articles on the topic "Not Quite Dead Enough"
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Nyström, Thomas. "Not quite dead enough: on bacterial life, culturability, senescence, and death." Archives of Microbiology 176, no. 3 (September 1, 2001): 159–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002030100314.
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PHELAN, JOHN P., and MICHAEL R. ROSE. "Research in the Biology of Ageing." Ageing and Society 17, no. 1 (January 1997): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x96006319.
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The biology of ageing is finally becoming tractable science. After millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing. And there is now the genuine prospect of substantially intervening in the process so as to postpone it. These developments have taken place quite rapidly over the last twenty years, and may not be widely known. Here we introduce some of the basic features of this intellectual revolution, along with its more portentous implications for the human predicament. At the centre of this reformation has been evolutionary genetics. Mathematical research has revealed the evolutionary necessity of ageing in most organisms. Experimental research has shown that evolutionary forces readily alter patterns of ageing. The evolutionary research has been allied with genetic and molecular investigations as well, allowing a broad-based attack on the diverse problems of ageing. This attack has now penetrated far enough that the postponement of ageing has become a problem limited by ‘technological’ restraints rather than shortcomings in our general understanding of the process.
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Aharon-Gutman, Meirav. "“It will be quiet enough when we're dead—Now is the time to live” Between planning the modern city and living in it." Planning Theory & Practice 10, no. 2 (June 2009): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649350902884896.
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Seabury, Paul. "Marxism-Leninism and its Strategic Implications for the United States." Social Philosophy and Policy 3, no. 1 (1985): 192–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500000236.
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My central concern in this paper is with the implications of Marxist-Leninist ideology for Western defense policy and for United States strategic policy in particular. However, this is an extremely complex issue, and consideration of it will lead me to examine the ways in which ideas are related to interests, interests to strategy, and strategy to actions.II begin with an important observation: Americans in general, and for various reasons, have not taken Marxism-Leninism seriously for a long time. This is true even of many experts who consider the Soviet challenge to be very serious, affecting our very survival as a free society. At the risk of oversimplification, I would claim that many quite well-informed Americans, hardened to the realities of the Soviet “empire” and its activities, have come around to the view that Marxist-Leninist ideology has simply degenerated into a rigid system of enforced belief administered by authorities who have no particular commitment to it other than to employ it in order to remain in power. In this regard, “Marxism” (like “God” in America in the 1960s) is deemed “dead,” surviving only in the publicity offices of formal establishments as a means of maintaining their authority. Marxism-Leninism is thought to be no different from the moribund “divine right of kings,” which undergirded the monarchical establishments of 17th Century Europe.Oddly enough, the “socialism-is-dead” theme is today found in the writings of such prominent American neo-conservatives as Irving Kristol, George Gilder, and many others. It is also echoed in Europe in the writings of such eminent philosophers as Leszek Kolakowski of Poland and Paul Johnson of England.
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Zbądzki, Jakub. "Ukryte „exemplum”. O roli łaciny w „Wybrańcu” Tomasza Manna." Prace Literackie 56 (June 29, 2017): 127–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0079-4767.56.9.
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A hidden exemplum. On the role of Latin in Thomas Mann’s The Holy Sinner However Thomans Mann’s montage technique is very well known, there are still parts of his novels, which are not clear enough. It is the case of Latin in The Holy Sinner, which is used not only to simply imitate the medieval literature, but also in the purpose of parody and irony. What is more, in the beginning of the novel narrator quotes — as it turns out — words from De amore inordinato, a story from Gesta Romanorum quite similar to the story of Gregorius, and criticize them. It seems that this is not only an irrelevant statement, but a commentary to the whole work, which has to be recognized by readers to understand it. By the quotation Mann itself indicates the new way of showing the matters of unpure love, sin, grace and — wider — religion, which is based on the very specific irony. Because of this uncommon technique some researchers argue that The Holy Sinner is just a trifle, but behind it there seems to be misunderstanding. The type of thinking, which connects a sense of humour and religious solemnity, used to be popular in Ancient Greek literature, and Thomas Mann in some way brought it back — just as he did with Latin, in his novel not a dead language, but truly alive.
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DAI, SHI, and RENXIN XU. "QUARK-CLUSTER STARS: HINTS FROM THE SURFACE." International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series 10 (January 2012): 137–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2010194512005855.
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The matter inside pulsar-like compact stars could be in a quark-cluster phase since in cold dense matter at a few nuclear densities (ρ ~ 2 - 10ρ0), quarks could be coupled still very strongly and condensate in position space to form quark clusters. Quark-cluster stars are chromatically confined and could initially be bare, therefore the surface properties of quark-cluster stars would be quite different from that of conventional neutron stars. Some facts indicate that a bare and self-confined surface of pulsar-like compact stars might be necessary in order to naturally understand different observational manifestations. On one hand, as for explaining the drifting sub-pulse phenomena, the binding energy of particles on pulsar surface should be high enough to produce vacuum gaps, which indicates that pulsar's surface might be strongly self-confined. On the other hand, a bare surface of quark-cluster star can overcome the baryon contamination problem of γ-ray burst as well as promote a successful core-collapse supernova. What is more, the non-atomic thermal spectra of dead pulsars may indicate also a bare surface without atmosphere, and the hydro-cyclotron oscillation of the electron sea above the quark-cluster star surface could be responsible for those absorption features detected. These hints could reflect the property of compact star's surface and possibly the state of condensed matter inside, and then might finally result in identifying quark-cluster stars.
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Ry, Nusyirwan, Djaimi Bakce, and Jumatri Yusri. "PENGARUH FAKTOR-FAKTOR INTERNAL DAN EKSTERNAL TERHADAP PENGEMBANGAN INDUSTRI KELAPA DI KABUPATEN INDRAGIRI HILIR." DINAMIKA PERTANIAN 33, no. 2 (February 14, 2018): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/dp.2017.vol33(2).1219.
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Indragiri Hilir District has 515,200 hectares of local coconut land with production of 418,200 tons (Statistic Board, 2015), but the area of land and its production is always decreasing. The decline of the area is caused by land damage, land conversion, the number of coconut plants that are old and dead and so affect to the need of raw materials for the development of the coconut industry in generating the number and type of product diversification. This research is conducted to analyze the internal and external factors that were influences to the development of local coconut industry which aims to know the internal and external factors in the development of coconut industry in Indragiri Hilir district. The result of the analysis showed that the internal factors that become the strength and impact on the development of the coconut industry are the large area of coconut plant that is large enough, the availability of a large workforce and already has a large scale coconut processing industry; while the weakness factor is the age of coconut plants is quite old, coconut farmers generally use local seeds, decreased coconut productivity and the limited number and type of diversification of coconut derived products. External factors that become opportunities for the development of the coconut industry is the high demand for coconut products and derivatives in the export market, coconut derivative products can still be developed and supported by local government and related agencies while external factors are a threat to the coconut industry development of coconut plantation damage due to sea water intrusion and high investment concerns in competing countries against the coconut industry.
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Ry, Nusyirwan, Djaimi Bakce, and Jumatri Yusri. "PENGARUH FAKTOR-FAKTOR INTERNAL DAN EKSTERNAL TERHADAP PENGEMBANGAN INDUSTRI KELAPA DI KABUPATEN INDRAGIRI HILIR." DINAMIKA PERTANIAN 33, no. 2 (September 24, 2019): 155–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/dp.2017.vol33(2).3828.
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Indragiri Hilir District has 515,200 hectares of local coconut land with production of 418,200 tons (Statistic Board, 2015), but the area of land and its production is always decreasing. The decline of the area is caused by land damage, land conversion, the number of coconut plants that are old and dead and so affect to the need of raw materials for the development of the coconut industry in generating the number and type of product diversification. This research is conducted to analyze the internal and external factors that were influences to the development of local coconut industry which aims to know the internal and external factors in the development of coconut industry in Indragiri Hilir district. The result of the analysis showed that the internal factors that become the strength and impact on the development of the coconut industry are the large area of coconut plant that is large enough, the availability of a large workforce and already has a large scale coconut processing industry; while the weakness factor is the age of coconut plants is quite old, coconut farmersgenerally use local seeds, decreased coconut productivity and the limited number and type of diversification of coconut derived products. External factors that become opportunities for the development of the coconut industry is the high demand for coconut products and derivatives in the export market, coconut derivative products can still be developed and supported by local government and related agencies while external factors are a threat to the coconut industry development of coconut plantation damage due to sea water intrusion and high investment concerns in competing countries against the coconut industry.
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Talbert, Richard J. A. "Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: the Cartographic Fundamentals in Retrospect." Cartographic Perspectives, no. 46 (September 1, 2003): 4–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/cp46.484.
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In time, space or purpose, the prospect of any close link between the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World [1] and the Historical Atlas of Canada [2] might seem remote indeed. As editor of the former, however, I instantly realized otherwise when first encountering the reflections of the director (Dean) and two editors of the latter (Cole Harris, Holdsworth) on their experience published in Editing Early and Historical Atlases: Papers given at the 29th annual conference on editorial problems, University of Toronto, 5-6 November 1993. [3] Naturally, to learn that in a quite different field others before you had wrestled with similar dilemmas, and had chosen to resolve them in broadly similar ways, is not enough to place your own choices beyond reproach. But such a discovery does offer reassurance; it acts to relieve a depressing sense of isolation, and demonstrates that your own painful choices need no longer be regarded as merely idiosyncratic.
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Allen, Brooke, and Marilynne Robinson. "Not Quite Dead." Hudson Review 51, no. 4 (1999): 775. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3852798.
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Cannon, Ammie. "Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/469.
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Rex Stout maintained his popular readership despite the often controversial and radical political content expressed in his detective fiction. His political ideals often made him many enemies. Stances such as his ardent opposition to censorship, racism, Nazism, Germany, Fascism, Communism, McCarthyism, and the unfettered FBI were potentially offensive to colleagues and readers from various political backgrounds. Yet Stout attempted to present radical messages via the content of his detective fiction with subtlety. As a literary traditionalist, he resisted using his fiction as a platform for an often extreme political agenda. Where political messages are apparent in his work, Stout employs various techniques to mute potentially offensive messages. First, his hugely successful bantering Archie Goodwin-Nero Wolfe detective duo—a combination of both the lippy American and the tidy, sanitary British detective schools—fosters exploration, contradiction, and conflict between political viewpoints. Archie often rejects or criticizes Wolfe's extreme political viewpoints. Second, Stout utilizes the contradictions between values that occur when the form of detective fiction counters his radical political messages. This suggests that the form of detective fiction (in this case the conventional patterns and attitudes reinforced by the genre) is as important as the content (in this case the muted political message or the lack of overt politics) in reinforcing or shaping political, economic, moral, and social viewpoints. An analysis of the novels The Black Mountain (1954) and The Doorbell Rang (1965) and the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" (1944) from Stout's Nero Wolfe series demonstrates his use of detective fiction for both the expression of political viewpoints and the muting of those political messages.
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Antommaria, Armand H. Matheny. "Not quite good enough a critical reading of Paul Ramsey's medical indications policy /." 2000. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9990524.
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Elmer, Hannah. "Alive Enough? A Conflict over Divine Presence and Natural Power in the Reanimation of Dead Infants, 1400-1545." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-tfxb-f850.
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This dissertation examines a late fifteenth-century conflict between Otto von Sonnenberg, bishop of Constance, and the City Council of Bern over attempts to temporarily reanimate dead infants in order to baptize them. Thousands of people were bringing their dead, unbaptized infants to the chapel of Oberbüren, heating them up over hot coals until they detected signs of life, and then baptizing them before they again died. Once baptized, the tiny corpses were buried in the consecrated ground surrounding the church, and the people celebrated the miracle by which another soul was saved from eternal damnation. But to the bishop, the heating did not work and the bodies did not return to life, which meant the people were baptizing corpses (which was ineffective) and violating consecrated ground by burying people still stained by original sin. While the bishop condemned this set of practices as a “superstition,” the City Council of Bern claimed that the resuscitations were legitimate miracles and should be promoted.
Such reanimation practices were not new at this time or at this place, but conflicts over them were unusual. By situating this conflict in a long history of (temporary) infant reanimation across Central Europe and the baptismal imperative of the medieval Christian Church, this dissertation turns to the changing contexts of the natural world, with magic, medicine and witchcraft, to help explain why the reanimation practices would be causing such a stir at this particular juncture. “Alive Enough” shows how different epistemologies—a religious one based in affect, ritual, and faith and a naturalistic one based on human intention, material manipulation, and the test of reason—could be combined (and contested) to produce new understandings of life itself. It also calls into question the secular/ecclesiastical divide in determining religious belief, showing—in the decades before the Reformation—the important role of secular authorities in determining even these very exceptional moments of divine intervention in the world, moments that should be the example par excellence of ecclesiastical prerogative.
Books on the topic "Not Quite Dead Enough"
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Wallwork, Adrian. "Enough, Quite, Pretty, Sufficient." In Easy English!, 75–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70981-9_28.
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Flanagan, Tom. "Chapter 13: Never Quite Enough." In Suffering and the Intelligence of Love in the Teaching Life, 155–57. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05958-3_21.
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Munis, James R. "Bird Brains and Bird Breath." In Just Enough Physiology, 129–34. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199797790.003.0016.
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To begin with, the bird lung is invested with a series of hollow air channels, not dead-end alveoli. These air channels are connected to a network of thoracic air sacs. When the air sacs contract and relax in coordination, they force inspired air through the air channels in an almost continuous, unidirectional flow. The air channels contact the pulmonary vessels in an architectural array that looks suspiciously like a countercurrent exchange device. Countercurrent exchange also is engineered into blood infusion devices to rapidly warm intravenous fluid or blood for patients with extensive hemorrhage. Countercurrent exchange takes advantage of the concept that 2 media will exchange properties between themselves more efficiently if they are very close to each other and flowing in opposite directions. There is also crosscurrent exchange. In a crosscurrent arrangement, one material divides into multiple parallel branches, and each of these branches crosses over the other material at multiple points. Although crosscurrent exchange looks similar, it is not quite as efficient as countercurrent exchange. There was controversy about whether the bird lung used crosscurrent or countercurrent gas exchange.
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Peebles, P. J. E. "Perturbation Theory." In Quantum Mechanics, 259–322. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691209821.003.0005.
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This chapter examines applications drawn from perturbation theory. The main topic in perturbation theory is the energy and spontaneous decay rate of the 21-cm hyperfine line in atomic hydrogen. Before there were electronic computers, people had quite an accurate theoretical understanding of the energy levels in helium and more complicated systems. The trick was (and is) to find approximation schemes that treat unimportant parts of a physical system in quite crude approximations while reducing the interesting parts to a problem simple enough that it is feasible to compute but yet detailed enough to yield accurate results. The approximation methods in the chapter deal with the effects of small changes in the Hamiltonian, resulting for example from the application of a static or time variable electric or magnetic field. This may cause small changes in energy levels, and it may induce transitions among eigenstates of the original Hamiltonian.
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Smith, Gary. "If You Torture the Data Long Enough." In The AI Delusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824305.003.0008.
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I recently received an e-mail that offered me a way to automate my research: Dear Professor Smith, We would like to introduce you to [our] brand new research tool . . . , ready to automate your empirical research basing on official statistical time series databases. [Our software] has been designed to explore and discover new exciting economic correlations directly from your desktop. No extra software required, no need to crawl thousands of databases manually. You’ll be up and running in no time your first big data project. The e-mail went on to boast that their software will calculate “correlation coefficients with millions of statistical time series,” “identify unexpected interdependences,” and “find new insights.” The creative grammar was one thing. More disheartening was their assumption that I wanted to sift through literally trillions of correlations looking for unexpected patterns. An unexpected pattern has no logical basis—and I am skeptical of patterns that defy logic. Statistical tests assume that researchers have well-defined theories in mind and gather appropriate data to test their theories. This company assumed that I was eager and willing to pay a substantial amount of money to work the other way around. Look at every possible correlation—not caring whether they made sense or not—and report the correlations that turn out to be the most statistically persuasive. It is a sign of the times, but not an inspiring sign. Many important scientific theories started out as efforts to explain observed patterns. For example, during the 1800s,most biologists believed that parental characteristics were averaged together to determine the characteristics of their offspring. For example, a child’s height is an average of the father’s and mother’s heights, modified by environmental influences. However, Gregor Mendel discovered something quite different in his experiments with pea plants. Mendel was born in Austria in 1822 and grew up on his family’s farm. His parents expected him to take over the farm, but Mendel was an excellent student and became an Augustinian monk at a monastery known for its scientific library and research. Perhaps because of his farming roots, Mendel conducted meticulous studies of tens of thousands of pea plants grown in the monastery’s gardens over an eight-year period.
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"14. Not Quite Dead." In The Corruption of Angels, 104–13. Princeton University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400824755-015.
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"“Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough”." In Not Quite White, 65–95. Duke University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822388593-004.
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"“Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough”:." In Not Quite White, 65–95. Duke University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131djq.7.
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"Flowers on a Dead Tree." In Enough to Say It's Far, 91–92. Princeton University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400827053-047.
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"3 ‘‘Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough’’: American Eugenics and PoorWhite Trash." In Not Quite White, 65–95. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822388593-005.
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Macke, Michael, Torfinn Hørte, Kristoffer Høyem Aronsen, and Guttorm Grytøyr. "Wellhead Fatigue Analysis: How Conservative Is Conservative Enough?" In ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2017-61838.
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In wellhead fatigue analysis, results are quite often sensitive to input parameters that are associated with considerable uncertainty. Such parameters may, e.g., be the cement level in the annulus between surface casing and conductor, the soil and template support, friction and down weight on the landing shoulder, etc. A common approach in deterministic design to deal with such problem is to use worst case assumptions on sensitive parameters. However, this may result in unreasonable short fatigue lifetime estimates. In this paper, it is shown how existing fatigue design equations using the concept of design fatigue factors can be augmented with characteristic design values for additional uncertain variables such that the overall safety level obtained is comparable to the recommended target levels for typical uncertainties in load effect calculations. Results from sensitivity analysis and SRA are compared to investigate to what extent sensitivity analysis results can be utilized as part of the design analysis. The intention of the proposed approach is to be reasonably conservative but to avoid being overly conservative.
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Babarit, Aure´lien, Hakim Mouslim, Alain Cle´ment, and Pauline Laporte-Weywada. "On the Numerical Modelling of the Non Linear Behaviour of a Wave Energy Converter." In ASME 2009 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2009-79909.
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Wave energy converters of the wave activated body class are designed to have large amplitudes of motion, even in moderate sea states, because their efficiency is directly related with the amplitude of their motion. Hence, classical seakeeping numerical tools based on linear potential theory, which are widely used in the design process of offshore structures, are not accurate enough in the case of wave energy conversion. So, large differences between numerical predictions and wave tank experiments are often observed. On the other hand, the use of CFD models theoretically able to provide more accurate results is still difficult for wave energy applications, mainly because this requires a huge computation time. Moreover, it is well known that viscous solver have difficulties in propagatating gravity waves accurately. In this paper, we assess the potential of two advanced hydro-dynamic numerical models in the numerical modelling of wave energy converters. These numerical models are expected to provide more accurate results than classical linear theory based numerical models and faster results than CFD models. Particularly, these tools are expected to be able to deal efficiently with large motions of wave energy converters. In the first one, the hydrostatic forces and the Froude-Krylov forces are computed on the exact wetted surface of the wave energy converter, whereas radiation and diffraction forces are computed using the standard linear potential theory. Using this model, it is shown that we were able to predict the parametric roll phenomenon in the case of the SEAREV wave energy converter. In the second one, a Navier Stokes solver, based on RANS equations, is used. Comparisons are made with experiments and it is showed that this tool is able to model quite accurately viscous effects such as slamming. However, computation time is found to be long with this last tool.
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Petrović, Dragana. "TRANSPLANTACIJA ORGANA." In XVII majsko savetovanje. Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Kragujevcu, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/uvp21.587p.
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Even the mere mention of "transplantation of human body parts" is reason enough to deal with this topic for who knows how many times. Quite simply, we need to discuss the topics discussed from time to time !? Let's get down to explaining some of the "hot" life issues that arise in connection with them. To, perhaps, determine ourselves in a different way according to the existing solutions ... to understand what a strong dynamic has gripped the world we live in, colored our attitudes with a different color, influenced our thoughts about life, its values, altruism, selflessness, charities. the desire to give up something special without thinking that we will get something in return. Transplantation of human organs and tissues for therapeutic purposes has been practiced since the middle of the last century. She started (of course, in a very primitive way) even in ancient India (even today one method of transplantation is called the "Indian method"), over the 16th century (1551). when the first free transplantation of a part of the nose was performed in Italy, in order to develop it into an irreplaceable medical procedure in order to save and prolong human life. Thousands of pages of professional literature, notes, polemical discussions, atypical medical articles, notes on the margins of read journals or books from philosophy, sociology, criminal literature ... about events of this kind, the representatives of the church also took their position. Understanding our view on this complex and very complicated issue requires that more attention be paid to certain solutions on the international scene, especially where there are certain permeations (some agreement but also differences). It's always good to hear a second opinion, because it puts you to think. That is why, in the considerations that follow, we have tried (somewhat more broadly) to answer some of the many and varied questions in which these touch, but often diverge, both from the point of view of the right regulations and from the point of view of medical and judicial practice. times from the perspective of some EU member states (Germany, Poland, presenting the position of the Catholic Church) on the one hand, and in the perspective of other moral, spiritual, cultural and other values - India and Iraq, on the other.
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Steinmetz, Marcel, and Jörg Hoffmann. "Search and Learn: On Dead-End Detectors, the Traps they Set, and Trap Learning." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/614.
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A key technique for proving unsolvability in classical planning are dead-end detectors \Delta: effectively testable criteria sufficient for unsolvability, pruning (some) unsolvable states during search. Related to this, a recent proposal is the identification of traps prior to search, compact representations of non-goal state sets T that cannot be escaped. Here, we create new synergy across these ideas. We define a generalized concept of traps, relative to a given dead-end detector \Delta, where T can be escaped, but only into dead-end states detected by \Delta. We show how to learn compact representations of such T during search, extending the reach of \Delta. Our experiments show that this can be quite beneficial. It improves coverage for many unsolvable benchmark planning domains and dead-end detectors \Delta, in particular on resource-constrained domains where it outperforms the state of the art.
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Ogawa, Yoji, Takao Morita, and Jun Matsuda. "Analysis of Anode Reaction on GTA Welding." In ASME 2003 22nd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2003-37485.
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Principle of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding is quite simple. Electron, which is emitted from Tungsten electrode, hits into the metal, and the heat from this impingement produce enough heat for fusion welding. However, actual behaviors are quite complicated. Electron emission is much influenced by physical condition of cathode and ambient circumstance. Considerable electron emits from unbelievable location of the cathode, especially at the stage of the cathode is not enough hot. The anode spot, where main electrons hit into the metal, is also much influenced by surface condition. The anode spot is usually appeared at the center of molten pool where the temperature seems to be maximum value. But, it sometimes moves irregularly or hits on the solid surface. This situation is mainly caused by oxidized layer on the solid metal or molten metal. Some minor elements in/on the metal act as a kind of catalytic agent. It sometimes drastically changes weld geometry. Fundamental experiment to observe arc instability was carried out from vacuum to high pressure, where contents of gas are controlled. Effects of oxygen and minor elements on anode reactions were measured by high speed digital video cameras. Measured molten metal flow, plasma distribution and anode behavior during GTA welding will be discussed in detail.
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Tang, Jessica A., Jeremi M. Leasure, Jenni M. Buckley, Dimitriy Kondrashov, and Christopher P. Ames. "Effect of Severity of Rod Contour on Posterior Rod Failure in Setting of Lumbar Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy (PSO): A Biomechanical Study." In ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2012-80094.
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Pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) is a powerful technique to correct flat back deformity in the lumbar spine. Because corrections as great as 30–40 degrees can be achieved with this technique, contouring of the fusion rods can be quite extreme in PSO constructs. Rod failure (Figure 1) during the late post-operative period (<1 year) has been reported clinically and is commonly associated with pseudoarthrosis. In fact, instrumentation failure following PSO occurs frequently enough that several studies have reported and investigated revision strategies.
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Ogawa, Yoji, and Takao Morita. "Influence of Oxygen on Electrode Consumption and Penetration in GTA Welding." In ASME 2004 23rd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2004-51244.
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Principle of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding is quite simple. Electron, which is emitted from Tungsten electrode, hits into the metal, and the heat from this impingement produce enough heat for fusion welding. However, actual behaviors are quite complicated. Electron emission is much influenced by physical condition of cathode and ambient circumstance. Considerable electron emits from unbelievable location of the cathode, especially at the ignition stage when the cathode is not enough hot. The anode spot, where main electrons hit into the metal, is also much influenced by surface condition and purity of shielding gas. The anode spot is usually appeared at the center of molten pool where the temperature seems to be maximum value. But, it sometimes moves irregularly or hits on the solid surface. This situation is mainly caused by oxidized layer on the metal or molten pool. Some minor elements on the metal act as a kind of catalytic agent. It sometimes drastically changes weld geometry. An amount of erosion on cathode surface is increased with increased oxygen contents. The penetration depth is also increased with oxygen contents. Plasma condition is also changed, because cathode and anode conditions are closely connected with plasma condition. Dynamic behavior of arc-cathode and arc-anode reactions was observed by ultra-high speed video system in a chamber from vacuum to high pressure, where contents of gas are controlled. Effects of oxygen and minor elements on anode and cathode reactions were considered.
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Wang, Haiyang, Chenxiu Song, and Quanyuan Gao. "Study and Compare on Classification and Management Requirements of Domestic and Foreign Research Reactors." In 2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone21-15412.
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There are 19 in-service civil research reactors in China nowadays, which are quite diverse on reactor type, usage, power levels, operation modes and safety features [1]. The common practice in nuclear energy advanced countries is to do safety classification and classified management of research reactors. In recent years, China has gradually refined and improved the related work. This paper summarizes the existing research reactor graded approach and safety management requirements included in certain regulations, guidelines and technical documents of IAEA, the United States, Japan and China, and specific practice and experience on operational level as well. And then the classification principles, classification elements, classification methods, safety management requirements and other aspects of the countries or government organizations mentioned above are compared from the view of research reactor safety classification. It comes to the conclusion: As far as China’s research reactor graded approach and safety management requirements are concerned, more work are needed. The relevant provisions of research reactor graded approach of IAEA are comprehensive, and have good reference value for China’s legislation system, but the classification method operability is not strong enough, and there are no detailed management and technical guides as the supplement to the graded approach. The relevant provisions of the research reactor graded approach of the United States and Japan are not systemic enough, but the classification methods are clear and operable, which are referable for China’s relevant practice on research reactor safety classification. After the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, the classified management of the research reactors has achieved quite good results in comprehensive safety inspection of China’s civil research reactors. Finally, some suggestions in respect of the establishment and improvement of China’s research reactor safety classification guidelines and documents, standardization the use of graded approach, and application in the review and supervision of research reactor in China are put forward.
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Wang, Shuxin, Bingquan Wen, Hongbo Yu, and Jintian Yun. "Vibration Reduction of a Vision-Based Controlled Flexible Arm: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects." In ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2005-84966.
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For vision-based controlled flexible arm, the accuracy of the finite dimensional dynamic models and stability become very important for controller design. This paper addresses the issue of selecting the shape function and mode in developing finite dynamic models, and designs suitable controller for a flexible arm with vision-based control. Input of the controller is the measured position error of the beam tip, which can be directly obtained by camera. In spite of the observed differences between actual system and simulated system, experimental results are good enough to validate the arm model. Simulation and experimental results show that the PID controller is acceptable. It is also stressed that two factors, the camera sampling rate and a dead band in the velocity command, will influence the properties of the control system for vision-based controlled flexible arm.
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Denny, Donna I., and Vladimir Scekic. "Influence of Front Driven Equipment on Viscous Damper and System Behaviour." In ASME 2003 Internal Combustion Engine Division Spring Technical Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ices2003-0553.
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Driving a generator, a hydraulic pump or another piece of equipment off the front of an engine is commonplace in industrial and marine applications. The (front-driven) equipment is sometimes an afterthought, a retrofit applied without due attention and proper analysis. How risky can this be? Additional equipment will, as a minimum, change the natural frequencies of the system. Adding another natural frequency that can be excited within the operating range of the system is quite common. In addition to this, if the added equipment is of substantial moment of inertia and connected to the damper rigidly enough, it may change the damper behaviour to the point of endangering the engine crankshaft. What should we know and which analysis should be completed before the decision is made to “just drive that PTO off the front of the main engine”?